I have a lot of reading to do and I need to plow through an average of 40-80 pages from books on a daily basis. (That excludes 180-220 emails per day, blogs and websites). I don’t know if that number is high or low by your standards, but I find that each year the […]

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Here are the links from the July 2009 Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) meeting:
TOPIC: “Multimedia Smackdown – Ripping DVDs and Other Cool Stuff” 
TV Tuners / Streaming

XBOX 360 – Media Center Extender http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/916179?sd=xbox
Windows Media Center Edition (Win7) http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/07/27/windows-7-media-center-review
Windows Home Server – Power Pack 3 […]

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Today in Madison, Wisconsin USA I saw half a dozen pregnant women firing off model rockets in a field….
I think I will call this picture, “Rocket Moms“

(c) 2007 Tim Barrett, All Rights Reserved
Warning: You have now reached the end of the Internet.

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Microsoft announced yesterday (8 April 2007) that they’re opening up the Xbox LIVE IM network (6 million-strong) to the Windows Live Messenger (260 million-strong) network.
“Who cares,” you say?  Gamers, clients, employees, your kids.  Today is a travel day for Matt (hello Cleveland!) but I’m sure he cares too.  And so should you.
Think about it:
Scenario 1 […]

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If you’ve got extra SD cards lying around, now you can turn them into a fake solid state hard drive for a laptop.

Admittedly, it’s got some issues, namely: a) all SD cards have to match (either 2 or 4 matching cards)b) SDHC isn’t supportedc) most laptops don’t have two internal 2.5″ drive bays.  d) […]

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Sure, Acer has their Ferrari notebook and ASUS has their Lamborghini laptop, and both are pretty cool. 
But if you really need the fastest PC in the universe, any geek will tell you that there’s only one place to go…
Alienware
 
They are big, they are bad, and they totally & completely rock!  And we’re not just talking […]

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